Mon May 8, 2017 AT 1:16 PM EDT
President Trump’s revised travel ban faces two major legal tests this month when federal appeals courts on opposite coasts take up challenges to an executive order that the administration says is urgently needed for national security and that opponents say discriminates against Muslims, reports The Washington Post.
- Reuters: Ex-Obama Administration Officials to Testify In Trump-Russia Probe
- Politico: McCain Hammers Tillerson in NYT Op-Ed
- WashExaminer: Kushner Companies Apologizes for Using Jared Kushner as a Part of China Pitch
- WashTimes: Planned Parenthood Defunding Promises to Trip up Republicans Pushing Major Legislation
- Guardian: Anti-Protest Bills Would ‘Attack Right to Speak out’ Under Donald Trump
Fri May 5, 2017 AT 1:33 PM EDT
After all the energy the House just expended on ramming through its Obamacare repeal, the Senate is about to start over, reports Politico.
- WashExaminer: Cook Political Report Shifts Ratings for 20 GOP Members After Healthcare Vote
- Townhall: Krauthammer: We’ll Be in a Single-Payer System in Less Than Seven Years
- AP: Americans With Severe Illness Anxious Over GOP Health Plan
- The Hill: Trump: I’m Staying at NJ Golf Club to Avoid Disrupting NYC, Save Money
- WashTimes: FBI Report Finds Officers ‘De-Policing’ as Anti-Cop Hostility Becomes ‘New Norm’
Thu May 4, 2017 AT 12:45 PM EDT
There’s no chance the House GOP’s plan to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act will leave the Senate unchanged, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said Thursday, reports The Washington Examiner. “No. Zero. That’s not the way it’s going to work,” he said, when asked if the bill could escape changes and and pass quickly in the Senate. Corker predicted senators would spend at least a month reviewing the House bill before starting the process of making changes.
- WashTimes: North Korea Tests Missiles Designed to Defeat US THAAD Defense System
- Free Beacon: Pentagon Pulls Security Clearance of Trump White House Aide
- Daily Caller: Clinton Cash’ Author Sounds The Alarm Over Jared Kushner’s Partnership With George Soros
- Reuters: US Coaxes Mexico Into Trump Plan to Overhaul Central America
- Independent: British Man Who Tried to Shoot Donald Trump Returns to UK Just Five Months Into One-Year Sentence
